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Dimitris Kontokostas edited this page Jul 8, 2014 · 21 revisions

Install Virtuoso

Option 1: Standard distributions (note that it might be an old version)

# Debian-based systems
$sudo apt-get install virtuoso-opensource

Option 2: LOD2 stack packages (usually latest version) (See this page for more options)

# download the repository package 
$ wget http://stack.lod2.eu/lod2stable-repository.deb
# install the repository package 
$ sudo dpkg -i lod2stable-repository.deb
# update the repository database 
$ sudo apt-get update
# install lod2-virtuoso-opensource
$ sudo apt-get install lod2-virtuoso-opensource

Option 3: Build from source

# Install necessary packages
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool flex bison gperf gawk m4 make openssl
# download the code
$ git clone https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource.git
$ cd virtuoso-opensource
# Build 
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-readline # use --help for more installation options
$ make
$ make install
# If you don't override the path in ./configure VOS is installed in /usr/local/virtuoso-opensource/

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Command Line Interface (more powerful / faster)

Web Interface (more user friendly / slower)

  • Open the Conductor interface: http://localhost:8890/conductor (port might differ in your installation)
  • Navigate to Linked Data -> Quad Store Upload
  • Upload a file or point to a remote URL
  • Remember to put the proper Named Graph IRI (usually http://dbpedia.org)

SPARQL Endpoint access

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